[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #180 - Welcome to Night Vale

Mon Jan 5 00:50:10 PST 2015

Perl Weekly 

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You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer.
http://perlweekly.com/archive/180.html

After the slow week during Christmas, we have now tons of articles.

Neil Bowers kicked off his CPAN Pull Request Challenge and a lot of people
have joined.

Enjoy your week!

Announcements

  Djet
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/kaare/2015/01/djet.html

  Djet is a Node Based Content Management System written in Perl. If you are
  confused like I was, don't worry. The 'node' in the name does not refer
  to Node.js, but more like the vertex in graph theory. I am not sure, but
  I think the code behind PerlMonks is also based on the same idea, of
  everything is a node.
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Articles

  A use for the scalar reverse (maybe)
  http://www.learning-perl.com/2015/01/a-use-for-the-scalar-reverse-maybe/

  The 'reverse' function of perl can easily trick people as it behaves
  differently in scalar and list context. In this article brian discusses
  some use cases when the scalar version of this function might be useful.
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  Makefile.PL as a modulino
  http://www.masteringperl.org/2015/01/makefile-pl-as-a-modulino/

  A modulino is a program that can act like a module, or a module that can be
  directly executed. While doing his CPAN Archeology brian turned his
  Makefile.PL into a modulino and shows how you could do that too.
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Perl Maven Pro
The Perl Maven Pro ("http://perlmaven.com/pro") subscribers receive two new
  articles and screencasts every week. The last week these were the two
  screencasts:

  Moose constructor
  http://perlmaven.com/pro/moose-constructor

  The beginning of a new series covering many advanced topics in Perl. This
  one starts the Object Oriented Programming with Moose section.
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  Moose: Testing the constructor
  http://perlmaven.com/pro/moose-test-constructor?utm_campaign=rss

  Using Moose to write classes in Perl is fun, but it is much more fun if we
  can even write unit-tests for our application.
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Testing

  How to Go Wrong Testing HTML and Why It Took Me Forever to Fix It
  http://blog.urth.org/2015/01/04/how-to-go-wrong-testing-html-and-why-it-took-me-forever-to-fix-it/

  Now with the CPAN Pull Request challenge going on, it is very interesting
  to read why a module author has delayed accepting a pull-request and how
  it lead to the creating of HTML::Differences that can find real
  differences between two HTML snippets.
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  Test-Simple release plan
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/chad_exodist_granum/2015/01/test-simple-release-plan.html

  The Test-Simple distribution is the heart of all the testing in the Perl
  ecosystem. Changing it and releasing it to the CPAN can break the
  installation process of every Perl user around the worl. Helping Chad by
  testing it before he releases to everyone will surely make him happy.
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Code

  Perl Scripts
  https://androus.wordpress.com/category/scripts/perl-scripts/

  A bunch of interesting Perl script examples
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Web

  RESTful APIs with Bedrock (part IV)
  http://openbedrock.blogspot.com/2014/12/restful-apis-with-bedrock-part-iv.html

  Bedrock, or OpenBedrock is a web development framework that allows you to
  embed SQL code in HTML. To me it looks like something left here from the
  previous century, but I am impressed that Rob Lauer, the author keeps
  running the project and keeps writing blog-posts about it!
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  New Dancer2 release en route to CPAN: 0.158000
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2015/01/new-dancer2-release-en-route-to-cpan-0158000.html

  Dancer2 is faster than Dancer and some parts of it got even faster with
  this release.
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CPAN

  Bring out yer distributions!
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2014/12/bring-out-yer-distributions.html

  Lots of people have signed up to the CPAN challenge
  ("http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2014/12/take-the-2015-cpan-pull-reque
  st-challenge.html") Neil announced so he also needs the other part of the
  equation. Modules that need to be fixed.
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  Pull request ideas
  http://neilb.org/2014/12/31/pr-ideas.html

  If you particiapate in the CPAN challenge of Neil, then you might wonder
  what kind of improvements could be considered in a module. Don't worry,
  Neil has already prepared a list of ideas and if you have others, you can
  comment on his blog.
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  Pull request etiquette
  http://neilb.org/2014/12/31/pr-etiquette.html

  Some ideas how to make sure the pull-request you send has a higher than
  average chance to get accepted.
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  My CPAN Cleaning, Day 2457023.500000
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2015/01/my-cpan-cleaning-day-2457023500000.html

  As you upload newer and newer versions of your module to PAUSE and thus to
  CPAN, the old onese linger around taking up space and possibly confusing
  people. brian has this annual (or is that bi-annual?) ritual cleaning up
  his directory, removing the old versions. This time he goes further and
  makes sure modules he has on CPAN have their proper GitHub repository and
  other useful features.
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  CPAN PullRequest Challenge 2015 - in German!
  http://reneeb-perlblog.blogspot.co.il/2015/01/cpan-pullrequest-challenge-2015.html

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Fun

  Downloading Welcome to Night Vale podcast episodes
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2015/01/downloading-welcome-to-night-vale-podcast-episodes.html

  Welcome to Night Vale
  ("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Night_Vale") is a podcast from
  a fictional town somewhere in the south of the US. Sawyer wrote a script
  to download all the episodes.
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Grants

  Improving Devel::Cover Grant Completed
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/12/improving-develcover-grant-com.html

  The full report of Paul Johnson on his grant and his work towards making
  Devel::Cover even more awesome than it was previously.
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  Call For Grant Proposals (January 2015 Round)
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/01/call-for-grant-proposals-janua.html

  You can submit your grant proposal to The Perl Foundation till 14 January.
  The grants will be decided till 30th January.
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  Act Voyager ---- long story
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/01/act-voyager------long-story.html

  Theo van Hoesel reports on his progress with the Act grant. Act is the
  application that handles the user accounts of most of the Perl-related
  conferences, workshops, and hackathons.
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Perl 6

  Is 2015 going to be the year of Perl 6 ?
  http://perl6maven.com/is-2015-going-to-be-the-year-of-perl6

  I have been on-and-off Perl 6 for quite some time, so after the news about
  Larry Wall talking about Perl 6 being production ready in 2015 I started
  to wonder if I should start wrting about Perl 6 again. Judging by the
  comments on Reddit
  ("http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/2qsrvg/is_2015_going_to_be_the_ye
  ar_of_perl_6/") there are quite a few people who prefer to spew hatered
  than to be constructive. We'll see.
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  Transform arrays and lists using map
  http://perl6maven.com/tutorial/perl6-map

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  Continuous Integration for Perl 6 modules using Travis-CI
  http://perl6maven.com/continuous-integration-for-perl6-modules-using-travis-ci

  Travis-CI does not support Perl 6 yet, but with this binary version of
  Rakudo Star you can hook up your GitHub repository and get it
  smoke-tested by Travis-CI.
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Other

  The Popularity of Perl in 2014
  http://szabgab.com/the-popularity-of-perl-in-2014.html

  Some stats about the most frequently visited Perl-related web sites
  including pageview data from the biggest Perl-related web sites.
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Weekly collections

  The annual collection of Miguel Prz
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/

  10 best perl distributions created at 2014 (metacpan rating)
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/10-best-perl-distributions-created
  -at_1.html"); metacpan most voted distributions in 2014
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/metacpan-most-voted-distributions-
  in.html"); 20 best Perl questions at stackoverflow in 2014
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/10-best-perl-distributions-created
  -at.html")
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  The weekly collection of Miguel Prz
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/

  (ix) CPAN great modules released last week
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/ix-cpan-great-modules-released-las
  t-week.html"), (cxli) metacpan weekly report - Inline::Module
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/cxli-metacpan-weekly-report-inline
  module.html"), (clxvi) stackoverflow perl report
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2015/01/clxvi-stackoverflow-perl-report.ht
  ml")
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Perl Maven Tutorials

  Advanced usage of Getopt::Long for accepting command line arguments
  http://perlmaven.com/advanced-usage-of-getopt-long-accepting-command-line-arguments

  Boolean on/off argument; Negatable boolean arguments; Incremental or
  counting arguments; arguments with optional value
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